EPA’s Web portal provides information about the basics of green infrastructure, options for financing green infrastructure, and examples of how communities are using green infrastructure to revitalize neighborhoods and enhance land use. The portal also offers tools to help visualize and design rain gardens, permeable pavement installations, and other types of green infrastructure as well as tools to develop public education and outreach campaigns focused on green infrastructure, according to an EPA news release.

Green infrastructure includes a wide range of approaches, including rain gardens, which catch rain water for plants instead of letting it run off into storm drains. Learn about green infrastructure approaches that can help transform communities EPA’s report, “Enhancing Sustainable Communities With Green Infrastructure.” Photo courtesy of Alisha Goldstein, EPA.